Exploring the employment readiness and return to work status of breast cancer patients and related factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the employment status, employment readiness, and other factors affecting the ease or difficulty with which breast cancer patients effect their return to work (RTW).

Methods

This study adopted a mixed-method design, recruiting participants from among breast cancer patients in a cancer hospital in Hunan from December 2018 to June 2019. We approached 300 individuals, 192 of whom ultimately participated in this study. The quantitative part of the study involved several scales: the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI), the Work Ability Index (WAI), and the Lam Assessment of Employment Readiness (LASER). The qualitative part involved a set of open-ended questions and written responses collected from 41 participants who

SUBMITTER: Hou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8488802 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature